Your Child's Social and Emotional Well-Being E-Book

John S. Dacey

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 341

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

Your Child's Social and Emotional Well-Being provides a practical guide full of proven strategies for promoting social and emotional learning (SEL) skills in children aged 4-16. * A practical guide designed to support parents and education professionals in developing social and emotional skills in children, a form of learning that can be neglected in formal education * Demonstrates how to foster social and emotional learning (SEL) at home and in the classroom, and shows how parents and professionals can work together for success * Includes a wealth of exercises for promoting social and emotional wellbeing, along with tips, tools, and coverage of new developments such as computer-assisted instruction * Written by authors with a wealth of practical and writing experience

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Acknowledgments

About the Companion Website

1 All Children

Need

Social and Emotional Well-being

Reciprocal Development and Sel

A Brief History of the Sel Movement

Parent–Teacher Alliances Need Support

Using our Strategies to Teach Sel

Part I: Self-awareness

2 Building Character

Forming Character: Awareness and Openness

Building Character: Transcultural Experience

Building Character: Humility

Building Character: Modeling

Building Character: Courage

Building Character: Clear Values

Undesirable Character Traits

3 Practicing Mindfulness

Activities that Foster Awareness

Activities that Foster Accurate Decision-Making

Part II: Self-management

4 Resiliency

5 Independent Thinking

Activities that Foster Exploration

Activities that Foster Multiple Perspectives

Activities that Foster Conviction in One’s Instincts

6 Self-regulating

What Self–regulation Means

Delay of Gratification

Locus of Control

Risk-Taking

The Shapiro Model—Yielding

Realistic Expectations

Scaffolding

Homework

Fluency and Flexibility of Self-Control Strategies

When to Withdraw Support

Part III: Social Awareness

7 Competing and Cooperating

Competition, Cooperation, and CASEL

Activities that Foster Better Competition

Activities that Foster Better Cooperation

Activities that Foster Cooperation

and

Competition

8 Neither Being Bullied nor Being a Bully

Activities that Promote Empathy

Conflict Resolution and Negotiation

Activities that Promote Positive Group Interaction

Part IV: Relationship Skills

9 Building Successful Friendships

Activities that Foster Compassion

Activities that Foster Tolerance and Appreciation

Activities that Foster Connectedness

10 Demonstrating Leadership

Activities that Promote Understanding of Power

Activities that Promote Self-awareness

Part V: Responsible Decision-making

11 Thinking Creatively

Fluency

Flexibility

Originality

Elaboration

12 Thinking Critically and Wisely

Activities that Foster Recognition and Prediction

Activities that Foster Discernment

Activities that Promote Ethical Reflection

Part VI: Achieving Your Goals Even More Effectively

13 Getting Help with Your Efforts

Support for Caregivers and Teachers

Actions that Create Support in the School Context

Actions that Generate Support from External Resources

14 The Future of SEL

Greater Importance of SEL

Facilitation of Sel Goals

Return of the Arts

Online Sel

Non-Classroom Settings for Sel

Non-School Settings for Sel

More Caring Citizens

More Research

References

Index

End User License Agreement

Guide

Cover

Table of Contents

Begin Reading

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Your Child’s Social and Emotional Well-Being

A Complete Guide for Parents and Those Who Help Them

John S. Dacey, Lisa B. Fiore, and Steven Brion-Meisels

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Names: Dacey, John S., author. | Fiore, Lisa B., 1970– author. | Brion-Meisels, Steven, author.Title: Your child’s social and emotional well-being : a complete guide for parents and those who help them / John S. Dacey, Lisa B. Fiore, and Steven Brion-Meisels.Description: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : John Wiley & Sons, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015047274 (print) | LCCN 2016002683 (ebook) | ISBN 9781118977064 (hardback) | ISBN 9781118976234 (ePub) | ISBN 9781118977040 (Adobe PDF)Subjects: LCSH: Social skills in children. | Social skills–Study and teaching. | Home and school. | Child development. | BISAC: PSYCHOLOGY / Education & Training.Classification: LCC BF723.S62 D33 2016 (print) | LCC BF723.S62 (ebook) | DDC 649/.7–dc23LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015047274

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